Tory hard-liners must compromise on Brexit deal or they open No10 door to Corbyn’s extremists
TORY Brexiteers must now compromise. They are in grave danger of wrecking Brexit, their party and their country, by gifting power to Corbyn’s extremists.
The EU must compromise too.
They know they can make firmer legally-binding promises on the hated Irish backstop. Time to offer them up.
Brexiteers must then hold their noses and vote for Theresa May’s deal. All other roads lead to catastrophe.
They won’t get the backstop removed. We don’t believe they’ll get a No Deal exit either, and even if they did the short-term chaos would kill their party.
Instead Parliament would postpone Brexit, possibly finishing the Tories for a generation. This current purgatory would go on for months longer — maybe long enough for Remainers to reverse the referendum result.
The Government would have failed in its only mission. It would instead have undermined our democracy and ensured bitter divisions that would never heal.
The one person unable to compromise, oddly, is the Prime Minister. Because what Brussels, Labour and Tory Remainers glibly ask of her, a permanent customs union, ALSO wrecks her party and destroys Brexit’s economic case.
It was folly to expect the Tory ERG group to vote to “take No Deal off the table” on Thursday night. Logic was on their side, at least.
But they need to think hard now how they will feel on March 30 if Brexit is put off and they are blamed. If they have opened the door to a toxic, anti-Semitic, anti-Western Labour rabble so crazed by ideology they cannot even allow Winston Churchill’s historic defeat of Nazism to trump his other failings.
A party committed to massive tax rises, maybe even a 20 per cent windfall levy on anyone’s “wealth”. A party led by pension-age Marxist revolutionaries friendly to Putin, Hamas, the IRA and hard-left dictators but hard on private enterprise, job-creation and free speech.
We sincerely hope Labour moderates stop dithering and resign to undermine Corbyn and McDonnell. We marvel that so many can still stomach these sinister men poised to do unimaginable harm.
But even if they can’t grasp that, Tory Brexiteers can. And we say this to them:
Wake up. Look how close you now are to bringing this calamity about.
Step on the gas
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A Government public information campaign must nail the lies the eco lobby has told to turn Brits off fracking.
If Theresa May ever sorts Brexit, she must take charge of it personally.